An Act of Love
Performing is an act of love. When an audience is truly listening to you, there is an exchange. A visceral embrace through the power of music, dance, words, whatever the […]
Little Girl Blue
Overall she’s just a 5th street makeover made out of jeans and dashboard junk. A Belair suite with a slap from her mother and ignored by her father. At five, […]
The Land of Fire and Ice
Traveling to The Land of Fire and Ice, I’m hoping for something literal. I fancy traversing active volcanoes and peering into molten lava tubes. What I find is evidence […]
To See and Be Seen
She was the child who didn’t run screaming into the house from the mountain lion padding silently into the yard. She was the one who swam closer in the saltwater […]
It would be overly dramatic to say I came close to death, but I did come closer than ever before
I’m not a religious person, but last night I dreamt God spoke to me: “Relationships are like strings: some of them seem like they’re broken and split, some of them […]
A Healthy Rift
There isn’t much she has to say lately. Communication has been a black spot in her eye that detracts the vision but isn’t big enough to do anything about. Astigmatism […]
Duel-istic Nature
Where sand meets sky, I’ll meet you there. In the long-cast shadows of the waning sun, in the high tide hours between wake and sleep. Perfect your call […]
Stems and Dusk
She waits for her lover on the veranda, music of lilies and jasmine wafting in symphonies to please the nose. Frogs and crickets orchestrate the scattered rhythm of the fireflies, […]
In the Mounting Dark
she doesn’t know what to do with herself. the days bleed into one another and her colors are paling. mistakes made have left a stress inside that is […]
On Fear
Fear is present and yet I am not afraid. As a performer, I deal with the notion of fear a lot. Strike that. As a human, I deal with the […]
Heart of the Looking Glass 